Cool City Challenge video - at last!

After several months of very hard work, we have finally finished the Cool City Challenge video. This program is based on a simple but very powerful idea: organize people at the neighborhood level to reduce their carbon and work together toward local sustainability. We're trying to get it off the ground in three Northern California cities, which will provide models for the hundreds of other cities that are looking for ways to implement their climate action plans. We have the cities, we have the people - now we're just looking for funding. Check it out, and tell me what you think!

Cool City Challenge is an initiative of Empowerment Institute in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Stanford, UCB, UC Davis, and the World Wildlife Fund. For more information, please visit www.coolcitychallenge.org.

Elliot tries to meet the President

Elliot and I participated in a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline outside a fundraiser at a private home in Palo Alto this evening. We saw his car from afar but not much else!

 

OFA National Day of Action on Climate Change

Last week I was invited to speak at a rally in downtown Palo Alto, as part of Organizing for America's National Day of Action on Climate Change. Here is a link to the text of my speech. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, skip to page 6.

Vanessa Warheit presenting at OFA's National Day of Action on Climate Change
Lytton Plaza, Palo Alto, California